Comparison

NuSaw vs 055U4RY

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NuSaw

Create massive, detuned '90s dance sounds with this polyphonic synthesizer. Features a stack of sawtooth oscillators, a resonant filter, and a full effects chain. Generate dynamic patches with LFOs, a modulation matrix, and an arpeggiator.

Highlights
  • Polyphonic SuperSaw engine
  • Detuned sawtooth oscillators
  • Resonant low-pass filter
  • Full effects chain (chorus, delay, reverb, drive)
  • Multiple LFOs and modulation matrix
  • Sequenced gate and arpeggiator
  • AUv3 plugin and standalone app
Features
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NuSaw is a polyphonic SuperSaw synthesizer: the huge, detuned '90s dance sound, built for accuracy and tuned to fill the room. At its heart is a stack of 3 to 25 detuned sawtooth oscillators with a sine sub, a resonant lowpass filter, and dual ADSR envelopes for amp and filter. On top sits a full effects chain: an accurately modeled chorus, a tempo-syncable stereo ping-pong delay, plate reverb, and drive. Motion is built in: three LFOs, a flexible modulation matrix, a sequenced gate, and an arpeggiator, so patches breathe, wobble, all on their own. • 50+ factory presets: leads, basses, stabs, pads, strings, arps, and keys • Authentically modeled SuperSaw engine with accurate drift and stereo spread • FX rack with authentic chorus + ping-pong delay + reverb + drive • 3 LFOs, mod matrix, sequenced gate, and arpeggiator • Resonant switchable filter, with slope control and key tracking • Save and share your own patches • AUv3 plug-in for AUM, Logic, GarageBand, Cubasis, and more, plus a full standalone app with an on-screen keyboard Whether you're chasing a festival trance lead, a snarling Reese bass, or a wide evolving pad, NuSaw gets you there fast. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Roland Corporation. Roland, JP-8000 and JP-8080 are trademarks of Roland Corporation, used for reference only.

About

055U4RY

This app is a unique polyphonic synthesizer designed to evoke horror-themed soundscapes. It features a distinctive visual interface resembling a haunted DOS terminal with a skull motif, offering a variety of synthesis engines and effects for creating unsettling audio.

Highlights
  • 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer
  • 15 synthesis engines
  • Twin chaotic LFOs
  • Shepard-Risset layer
  • State-variable filter
  • Sample-rate reducer and bit-depth crusher
  • Real-time stutter buffer (GLTCH)
Features
Currently charting
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055U4RY (say it: "ossuary") is an 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer sealed inside a haunted DOS terminal — and, since 1.30, a second plug-in that turns the same machine loose on any audio you feed it. A photographic ASCII skull is the front panel: its jaw hinges open with the amplitude envelope, its eye sockets ignite with the output level, and the whole interface tears, melts and reassembles itself while you play. THE VOICE - 15 synthesis engines: detuned saw/square/triangle unison stacks, sine and sub-oscillators one and two octaves down, two-operator FM, ring modulation and inharmonic partials. Every factory preset is a different engine. - Twin chaotic LFOs that cross-modulate each other's RATE, so pitch and filter drift never repeats. Held notes stay alive and slightly wrong. - A Shepard-Risset layer tuned beneath every note: five windowed partials in an endless downward glissando - the bottomless-pit illusion of classic horror scoring, fused into the oscillator core. - A 19 Hz infrasonic tremolo at the edge of perception. On headphones it is a shiver; on a big system it is pressure. THE CHAIN - State-variable filter, low-pass or band-pass per engine, with resonance that will scream - Sample-rate reducer and bit-depth crusher for terminal-grade lo-fi - Saturating drive stage - GLTCH: a real-time stutter buffer that seizes and re-loops your signal - CRYPT: a damped, pitch-black comb/allpass reverb - GLIDE: exponential portamento up to 1.5 seconds - DOOM: one macro that leans the chaos, the descent and the tremor deeper into the signal PERFORM - 14 knobs, all ASCII, every one audible on every preset - 15 factory presets with per-preset patch memory: your tweaks persist for each preset, and [RESET] restores the factory sound - Two-octave on-screen keyboard with octave transpose and note names - Hardware MIDI in (all sources auto-connect), built-in Bluetooth MIDI pairing, pitch bend, MIDI 2.0 aware - The skull is your meter: jaw = envelope, eyes = level, decay = how hard you push GLTCH 055U4RY FX - THE EFFECT The same app installs a second, separate plug-in. Put it on a drum loop, a guitar, a vocal or a whole mix and run it through the machine: - The full destruction chain as an insert - drive, bit crusher, sample-rate reducer, stutter, filter and the CRYPT reverb - in true stereo - HAUNT: a cross-fed delay whose repeats rot as they decay, with MURK controlling how fast they turn to mud - SYNC: stutters and echoes locked to your host's tempo, 1/16 through 1/1, or free-running - DOOM as an injector: the endless Risset descent and the 19 Hz tremor printed underneath your audio, so anything you feed it gains a bottomless falling drone that was never in the source - Fifteen presets sharing the instrument's names, each a different topology - Wet/dry MIX, output trim, and a skull that reacts to whatever passes through AUv3 + STANDALONE The synth runs standalone with zero setup. Both plug-ins install into your host: AUM, Logic Pro, GarageBand, apeMatrix, WBTRK and any AUv3-compatible DAW, with full parameter automation - "hejluxom: 055U4RY" under instruments, "hejluxom: 055U4RY FX" under effects. One purchase, every platform: iPhone, iPad and Mac. No accounts, no ads, no data collected - your patches never leave the device.

Screenshots

NuSaw4 screens
055U4RY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 055U4RY at $1.99 against NuSaw's $6.99. 055U4RY also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 2) and chart position (#171 vs unranked). NuSaw's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

NuSaw costs $6.99 and 055U4RY $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NuSaw against 5.0 for 055U4RY. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 055U4RY has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NuSaw ships an update every 2 days, 055U4RY every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
NuSaw versus 055U4RY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNuSaw055U4RY
Price$6.99$1.99 — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (28 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings228 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#171 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCharles VestalLASZLO DOBROVOLSZKI

Customer experience

NuSaw

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

055U4RY

All ratings28 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NuSaw

No in-app purchases

None

055U4RY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NuSaw free?
NuSaw costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 055U4RY free?
055U4RY costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NuSaw or 055U4RY?
NuSaw and 055U4RY are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 28 ratings respectively.
Do NuSaw or 055U4RY have ads?
Neither NuSaw nor 055U4RY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NuSaw or 055U4RY?
NuSaw ships an update every 2 days, and 055U4RY every 6 days. Most recently, NuSaw was updated on October 31, 2026 and 055U4RY on October 31, 2026.

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